Childlike Empress

The Childlike Empress (Kindliche Kaiserin in German) is an important character in the 1979 Michael Ende novel, Die Unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story). She resides in the Ivory Tower palace in the middle of Fantastica, but the length of time she actually appears in the book is brief compared to other characters of similar importance; however, her significance to both the story and the interactions of the characters is vital to fully appreciate the varying messages Ende is trying to convey. The role was portrayed by Tami Stronach in Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 adaptation The NeverEnding Story, by Alexandra Johnes in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and by Julie Cox in The NeverEnding Story III (1994). The first...